Bottle and no oxygen!

Aaliyah and grammy

holding on to poppa

Aaliyah and her daddy fishing

bath time

Ciara is doing well again today weighing in at 3lb 1oz! That's right she has officially doubled her birth weight. They have been weaning down her O2 from high flow nasal cannula to regular nasal cannula. She was at 21% at 1.5 liters yesterday. But today they took her oxygen out and she has been doing well. Praise the LORD!!!! On Thursday evening I asked Dr. Hassen when I could start giving her a bottle and he told me some time next week. Well much to my surprise when I went in on Friday morning they told me I could let her "nipple" two times a day. She could either take a bottle or breast feed. I gave her a bottle on Friday and she did so well. She also got her first tub bath on Friday and seemed to tolerate it well. I did not go up on Saturday because we had two birthday parties to go to. We had such a great time at both of them. Corey and Aaliyah went fishing in her Uncle Greg's pond and every time Corey caught a fish she got so excited! She would say good bye to the "shisshy" and then tell her dad to catch another! The nurses fed Ciara her two bottles on Saturday and she did great.

I did go up yesterday and when I got there the nurse had just finished giving her a bottle. As you can imagine I was quite disappointed I missed the feeding. But they let me breast feed her on the next feeding. She didn't do as well as she normally does because she was tired from the last bottle. She is not strong enough yet to nipple every feeding. But the doctor did increase it to 3 times a day. All other feedings she gets through her tube. My mom, dad, and aunt libby came up to visit yesterday and my mom and dad got to touch her for the first time. She latched right on to my dad's hand and I got some adorable pictures. She watched my mom and kept sticking her tongue out at her. Her nervous system is still immature so she does have some involuntary movement. Aaliyah came up yesterday too but she fell asleep and didn't get to see much of her sissy. Please continue to pray for our little one. She is doing so well.